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called "histories" of the various colleges usually have nothing to say about the por- traits which adorn various halls, &c.

W. ROBERTS. Carlton Villa, Klea Avenue, Clapham.

QUEEN MARY TUDOR. Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' throw light upon the origin of the fine window containing a portrait of Queen Mary, which is now exhibited in the South Kensington Museum 1 It is the pro- perty of Dr. Leonard Guthrie and of Mr. W. H. Guthrie. W. H.

AGAM COLOURS. One of the East India Company's factors, writing from India, asks on two occasions, in 1614-15, for kerseys, agam colours meaning, apparently, light colours. Can any one explain the term ? It is not in the ' Historical English Dictionary.'

WILLIAM FOSTER.

LEWIS CARROLL. A letter from him ap- peared in one of the London newspapers, some ten years ago, complaining of the annoyance caused to country playgoers by the non-appearance of actors when their names were announced in the bills for the day. A reference would greatly oblige.

EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

Hastings.

DEAD FOLD. This term, or what sounds like it, is used hereabouts of the sheltered fold prepared as lambing quarters for the ewes. "W hat does " dead " mean in this case ; and is this the proper spelling 1

C. S. WARD.

Wootton St. Lawrence, Basingstoke.

"UNSPEAKABLE TURK." I should like to know the origin of the term " Unspeakable Turk." AMERICAN READER.

[Was not the term first used by Mr. Gladstone?]

JOHN KING, D.D. He was master of the Charterhouse, and died 1738. Of what family was he? Where did his brother, Major King, reside, whose daughter Mary married Sir F. Dashwood, Bart. ?

W. L. KING.

York.

CURE BY THE HAND OF A CORPSE. In a family with which I am acquainted there is a young child who is subject to some form oi throat disease. Recently it was visited by former nurse, who was accompanied by an old countrywoman. The latter, on learning the nature of the child's complaint, said to the mother, "Take her somewhere where there's a corpse, and pass the hand of the corpse across

ler neck, and she '11 be all right after that." [s this custom known and practised in any part of England ?

AUTHOR AND NAME OF PLAY WANTED. [nformation wanted as to name of author and name of piece (played about fifty or more years ago) in which the following chorus occurs :

Now by the waving greenwood tree

We merry, merry archers roam ; Careless and jovial, ever free, We hail our native home.

A. W. MALCOLMSON. 47, Victoria Street, S. W.

THE VILLAGE OF LOGGERHEADS. In Mrs. S. C. Hall's ' Pilgrimages to English Shrines ' (1850, p. 131) it is stated that " in his youth Richard Wilson painted for a rural inn at Llanverris [sic] a sign with the motto 'We three Loggerheads oe.' The village hence received the name of ' Loggerheads ' ; it has since been known by no other." It is many years since I was in Llanberris, and I do not recollect this sign there ; but there is such a sign at Tonbridge, in Kent. The picture bangs over the street, and shows two grinning heads. Of course every passer-by recognizes the grey old joke. But is Llanberris known as Loggerheads ? JAMES HOOPER.

Norwich.

TREACLE BIBLE. In our family Bible of 1568 the word "treacle" is spelt with an t, " triacle," Are all treacle Bibles so spelt, or is it a mark of a special edition 1 ? In the same Bible the ' Prologue of Saint Basill the Great' appears before the Psalms. Is this also common to Bibles of the date ; or is it an interpolation 1 It is in the same print as the rest of the Bible, and apparently belongs to the same period. KATE ST. LEGER.

["Treacle" Bibles are of various dates. Treacle,

58, &c.]

YOUNIE. Is not this a peculiar surname ? Can any of your correspondents give its deri- vation ? There is a family of the name in this town, Torres, and it is also a surname in Inverness. Mr. McBain in his 'Inverness Names,' published in 1895, places it among names of difficult derivation, and includes with it Biscoe, Broderick, Bormick, Comage, Couch, Corballes, Darksen, Degles, Fridge, Haider, Hourie, Latto, Michan, Phemister, Sinnott, Skhan, Tritschler, and Videon. Can any of these be explained ? Phemister is Phimister in Forres. From the same book I